America Vols. 1 & 2 : A Narrative History

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America , now in its twenty-fifth year, has sold more 1.2 million copies over the past seven editions and remains the most affordable history text on the market. The narrative wins students over with compelling storytelling, colorful anecdotes and biographical sketches that make the material more memorable. The text includes helpful in-text study aids, and a host of electronic media resources to help teachers teach and students learn.

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Preface

A New World

The Collision of Cultures

Pre-Columbian Indian Civilizations

European Visions Of America

The Expansion Of Europe

The Voyages Of Columbus

The Great Biological Exchange

Professional Explorers

The Spanish Empire

The Protestant Reformation

Challenges To The Spanish Empire

Britain and Its Colonies

The English Background

Settling The Chesapeake

Settling New England

Indians In New England

The English Civil War In America

Settling The Carolinas

Settling The Middle Colonies And Georgia

Thriving Colonies

Colonial Ways of Life

The Shape Of Early America

Society And Economy In The Southern Colonies

Society And Economy In New England

Society And Economy In The Middle Colonies

Colonial Cities

The Enlightenment

The Great Awakening

The Imperial Perspective

English Administration Of The Colonies

The Habit Of Self-Government

Troubled Neighbors

The Colonial Wars

From Empire to Independence

The Heritage Of War

British Politics

Western Lands

Grenville And The Stamp Act

Fanning The Flames

Discontent On The Frontier

A Worsening Crisis

Shifting Authority

Independence

Building A Nation

The American Revolution

1776: Washington's Narrow Escape

American Society At War

1777: Setbacks For The British

1778: Both Sides Regroup

The War In The South

Negotiations

The Political Revolution

The Social Revolution

The Emergence Of An American Culture

Shaping A Federal Union

The Confederation

Adopting The Constitution

The Federalist ERA

A New Nation

Hamilton's Vision

The Republican Alternative

Crises Foreign And Domestic

Settlement Of New Land

Transfer Of Power

The Adams Years

The Early Republic

Jeffersonian Simplicity

Jefferson In Office

Divisions In The Republican Party

War In Europe

The War Of 1812

An Expansive Nation

Nationalism and Sectionalism

Economic Nationalism

"Good Feelings"

Crises And Compromises

Judicial Nationalism

Nationalist Diplomacy

One-Party Politics

The Jacksonian Impulse

Setting The Stage

Nullification

Jackson's Indian Policy

The Bank Controversy

Contentious Politics

Van Buren And The New Party System

Assessing The Jackson Years

The Dynamics of Growth

Agriculture And The National Economy

Transportation And The Market Revolution

A Communications Revolution

The Industrial Revolution

The Popular Culture

Immigration

Organized Labor

The Rise Of The Professions

Jacksonian Inequality

An American Renaissance: Religion, Romanticism, and Reform

Rational Religion

The Second Great Awakening

Romanticism In America

The Flowering Of American Literature

Education

Antebellum Reform

Manifest Destiny

The Tyler Years

The Western Frontier

Moving West

Annexing Texas

Polk's Presidency

The Mexican War

A House Divided and Rebuilt

The Old South

The Distinctiveness Of The Old South

White Society In The South

Black Society In The South

The Culture Of The Southern Frontier

Anti-Slavery Movements

The Crisis of Union

Slavery In The Territories

The Compromise Of 1850

Foreign Adventures

The Kansas-Nebraska Crisis

The Deepening Sectional Crisis

The Center Comes Apart

The War of The Union

The End Of The Waiting Game

The Balance Of Force

The War's Early Course

Emancipation

The War Behind The Lines

Government During The War

The Faltering Confederacy

The Confederacy's Defeat

A Modern War

Reconstruction: North and South

The War's Aftermath

The Battle Over Reconstruction

Reconstructing The South

The Reconstructed South

The Grant Years

Growing Pains

The South and The West Transformed

The New South

The New West

Big Business and Organized Labor

The Rise Of Big Business

Entrepreneurs

Labor Conditions And Organization

The Emergence of Urban America

America's Move To Town

The New Immigration

Popular Culture

Education And The Professions

The Rise Of Realism

The Social Gospel

Early Efforts At Urban Reform

Gilded Age Politics and Agrarian Revolt

Paradoxical Politics

Corruption And Reform: Hayes To Harrison

The Farm Problem And Agrarian Protest Movements

The Economy And The Silver Solution

Modern America

An American Empire

Toward The New Imperialism

Expansion In The Pacific

The War Of 1898

Imperial Rivalries In East Asia

Big-Stick Diplomacy

The Progressive ERA

Elements Of Reform

Features Of Progressivism

Roosevelt's Progressivism

Roosevelt's Second Term

From Roosevelt To Taft

Wilson's Progressivism

Limits Of Progressivism

America and The Great War

Wilson And Foreign Affairs

An Uneasy Neutrality

America's Entry Into The War

America At War

The Fight For The Peace

Lurching From War To Peace

The Modern Temper

Reaction In The Twenties

The Roaring Twenties

The Culture Of Modernism

Republican Resurgence and Decline

"Normalcy"

The New Era

President Hoover, The Engineer

New Deal America

From Hooverism To The New Deal

Recovery Through Regulation

The Social Cost Of The Depression

Culture In The Thirties

The Second New Deal

Roosevelt's Second Term

The Legacy Of The New Deal

From Isolation to Global War

Postwar Isolationism

War Clouds

The Storm In Europe

The Storm In The Pacific

The Second World War

America's Early Battles

Mobilization At Home

Social Effects Of The War

The Allied Drive Toward Berlin

Leapfrogging To Tokyo

A New Age Is Born

The Final Ledger

The American Age

The Fair Deal and Containment

Demobilization Under Truman

The Cold War

Civil Rights During The 1940s

The Cold War Heats Up

Through The Picture Window: Society and Culture, 1945-1960

People Of Plenty

A Conforming Culture

Cracks In The Picture Window

Alienation And Liberation

A Paradoxical Era

Conflict and Deadlock: The Eisenhower Years

"Time For A Change"

Eisenhower's "Hidden-Hand" Presidency

Foreign Intervention

Reelection And Foreign Crises

Festering Problems Abroad

The Early Years Of The Civil Rights Movement

Assessing The Eisenhower Presidency

New Frontiers: Politics and Social Change In The 1960S

The New Frontier

Expansion Of The Civil Rights Movement

Foreign Frontiers

Lyndon Johnson And The Great Society

From Civil Rights To Black Power

The Tragedy Of Vietnam

Sixties Crescendo

Rebellion and Reaction In The 1960s and 1970s

The Roots Of Rebellion

Nixon And Vietnam

Nixon And Middle America

Nixon Triumphant

Watergate

An Unelected President

The Carter Interregnum

A Conservative Insurgency

The Reagan Revolution

Reagan's First Term

Reagan's Second Term

The Bush Administration

Triumph and Tragedy: America at The Turn of The Century

America's Changing Mosaic

Cultural Conservatism

Bush To Clinton

Domestic Policy In Clinton's First Term

Republican Insurgency

The Clinton Years At Home

Foreign-Policy Challenges

The Election Of 2000

Compassionate Conservatism

Global Terrorism

Second-Term Blues

A Historical Election

The First One Hundred Days

Glossary

Appendix

The Declaration Of Independence

Articles Of Confederation

The Constitution Of The United States

Amendments To The Constitution

Presidential Elections

Admission Of States

Population Of The United States

Immigration To The United States, Fiscal Years 1820-2008

Immigration By Region And Selected Country Of Last Residence, Fiscal Years 1820-2008